Description of project:
“This dance is not for you” is an artistic project that attempts to activate memories of collective rituals, focusing on rituals of communities that try not to integrate into mass and commercial culture. Special emphasis is placed on the Greek punk subculture and Anastenaria. The interest in the collective rituals of the roots in the observation that the shared ecstatic feeling and the synchronization of the bodies, looks like a communal practice of love, as there is a “dissociation” of the individual ego.
The limits and possibilities of the stage interpretation of such rituals will be explored, without compromising their mystical and “underground” character. The purpose is the creation of a kinetic, choreographic and sound “toolbox” through which the ecstatic rituals and the practices of the performing arts could potentially mingle.

Open presentation: Saturday December 07^th 2024
20:30, Free Entrance

Workshop
Sunday December 08^th 2024
Free submission

Stali Symeon

Stali Simeon studied Political Science at university of Athens and Dance at Aktina Higher Professional School of Dance. She continues with post-graduate studies in Dance at the Antwerp Conservatory doing research on the corporeality and rituals of the social fringe. As part of her postgraduate research “This Dance Is Not For You” she participated in the residency 10 days to 10′, in the summer residencies at P.A.R.T.S. and DeSingel. Her work Eternally Alive, participated in the Container Festival in Thessaloniki, was presented in Athens at M54, and later a second version of the work Eternally Alive- A2 at the “On Bodies” Festival at the Dance House Nicosia. Since 2020 she collaborates with the BPM theater group as a choreographer (Rematia Festival, Mavromichali Theatre, PLYFA, Neos Kosmos Theatre, All Greece one Culture). In recent years she has participated as a dancer-performer in the creations of: La Coja Dansa, Belleville collective, Kiki Baka, Vaso Giannakopoulou, Sandra Grimma, Elisavet Pliakostathi, Hara Kassaraki, Varvara Bardaka, Anthi Drilia, Sofia Kouloukouri. She teaches dance and yoga.